Prudence Crandall (September 3, 1803 - January 28, 1890), a schoolteacher raised as a Quaker, stirred controversy with her education of African-American girls in Canterbury, Connecticut. Her private school, opened in the fall of 1831, was boycotted when she admitted a 17-year-old African-American female student in the autumn of 1833; resulting in what is widely regarded as the first integrated classroom in the United States.
She is Connecticut's official State Heroine.
Read more about Prudence Crandall: Early Life, Integration of The Boarding School, The New School, Public Backlash, Judicial Proceedings, Later Years, Legacy
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